Tag: Anselm
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(one of the reasons) why I love the Proslogion
Alongside the Divine Comedy, St. Anselm’s Proslogion is my favorite piece of medieval writing, and it’s my favorite because it’s beautiful. That might surprise those who are only familiar with the text for the so-called “ontological argument,” the arguments of the second and third chapters that demonstrate not only that God exists but that He cannot […]
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whither can I flee from thy presence?
Reading in the Psalms yesterday, I was struck by the resonances between Psalm 138 and Anselm’s project in the Proslogion and Cur Deus Homo. My read of Anselm here is shaped heavily by Burcht Pranger’s interpretation of the saint’s thought. Not coincidentally, I recently attended a lecture by Prof. Pranger on Anselm, thus these ideas were percolating […]
Dan Yingst 